Pete you are an inspiration to others. Probably more then you know. Thank you for the frequent videos of wisdom and farming lessons. You have taught me so much
I just love how Patty and the other cows groan and talk to you when they want something. I think it's hilarious! I could watch and listen to that all day long and it would never get old. My Grandfather ran a big dairy farm and it was the same with their cows when it came to food. They weren't as vocal as yours though.
Thank you Pete for making these videos. With all that's going on in the world today you not only provide a pleasant break but a positive outlook. There is more than enough gloom and doom.
I love how Patty always voices her openion on how Pete is not moving fast enough lol.. It was nice to see you both working hard together to get thing ready for the summer. Great work guys..
I had those fly traps it seemed to me that I was gathering the whole county's worth of flys , so I was basically asking for more troubles 🤪 and I love watching you walk ing almost hand in hand with Hillary 👍❤️☕
Reminded me of my days on the farm. Our dairy cows would bellow like mad when milking was over. They wanted out.They would also come when we called them. We didn't have to go to the pastures to get them. Love your videos and sage advice. Keep on farming.
Travis you sure are right as a kid on the farm I remember My friends father would just go to the gate and yell CO BOSS CO BOSS they all would come to the barn.
Just such a well done video. You inspire and teach many of us to follow our dreams in an educated controlled manner. Thanks for everything you do. Watching your videos I have learned about my old tractor, my small farm operation etc etc
Another great 👍 farm video, Pete. Like your fly experiment 🔬. Looking forward to taking broiler chickens to pasture. I get a laugh 😂 out of chickens rushing out of the chicken 🐓 house. Take care and have a great day. P.S. thank Hillary for the help. She is a low key, supportive person. You guys make a great 👍 team.
Just a few acres. I really enjoy your videos. We are on year 3 of starting our small farm. Your nuggets of wisdom are welcome at our farm. When i get bogged down trying to achieve something my wife always references your guiding message of how you cant go from zero to perfect in one step on a farm. Keep the great and uncommercialized content coming.
Pete, I don't often comment but I want you to know how much I enjoy and look forward to every new video. Repeat- every new video! regardless of subject matter. Your friend Bob
Pete I Really enjoy watching your videos. You are such a positive person. Thanks for the videos. I always look forward to watching your next video. God bless you and your wife and Family.
Fun video. It was so precious to watch the cows follow you, all the time talking to you. They are amazing animals. Good to see Hillary out and about with you. Great team! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Another great video, Pete. Yes, your farm name could be "Experimental Farm" because of all of the new ways you try to do things. You are constantly looking for good research and new ways to improve the farm and your animals. Thanks for making great videos.
Hey Pete Awesome hat...lol Cooked up the sausages and mixed ground beef and pork together for burgers....outstanding flavor It was great to meet you. Mike and Brenda Ottawa
Thanks for the fence building lesson. Always wondered just how they did that cross brace and the fence tightener. That and the fly stuff was really interesting. Thanks again!
Hi Pete! Interesting to hear you may want to experiment with "rotational mowing" in addition to rotational grazing. In the Netherlands this is called "mowing in service of grazing". Meaning that mowing the grass is performed to yield the perfect quality of grass at the right time, so that the cows can graze the best quality of grass at all times... typicaly when a field is grazed several times, quality goes down after some time. This field can become refreshed after mowing. While telling you this, I notice how silly this must sound, because you are probably well aware of this practice... Anyways, common practice here is a ratio of 2 times grazing versus 1 times mowing, this being repeated during the season. This cycle is planned in a schedule for all fields. Grow state and speed of the different fields can be controlled with applience of fertilizer and manure anywhere between february 15th and september 1st...
In New Zealand we call that topping. Mowing pasture that's getting a bit too far gone or too much seed head for grazing mow before or after cows go in. If there's just too much growth and you can't keep up skip a few paddocks and mow them for hay or silage
@@glenkoopman7347 Okay! But are you planning the growth of gras also? This is done in Netherlands by applying various amounts of nitrogen fertilizer and slurry. E.g. in early spring, some paddocks are applied more nitrogen, so growth of gras is more rapidly than on paddocks with less nitrogen. Thus creating a variety of growth state over all paddocks, such that cows always have an optimal feed, when they are moved from one paddock to the next.
@@henrieassinck I am in New Zealand we graze everyday of the year and yes fertilizer mowing and grazing all work together to try get optimal quality for cows
@@glenkoopman7347 do yall have any reservation of haying a field after grazing???? after the cows move thru the fields and leave manure pats in them, how long do you wait in order to not have manure in you hay bales?? i really dont like the idea of having manure in my hay bales....thoughts??? thanks
@@raybornclark8617 it depends on what type of machines you use an how you use them. Myself I mow after extensive grazing in some plots. Sometimes after a few weeks allready, depending on the weather. The manure of the cows stays untouched if the mower is set to not cut the grass too short. Then set tedders and rakes in such a way that they do not touch the manure with the teeth... it might take more time to complete the job, but it is doable.
I love building electric fence. Its kinda like building with LEGO. Its enjoyable and feels good to accomplish getting a fence up or repaired back into good working order.
I have been using the fly traps for about 5 years along with sticky paper in our chicken pen. The earlier they are installed really helps late season fly numbers duue to eliminating the breeding population. At least that is my thought process. Have a great day. We are about 1 mounth ahead of you in seasonal fly development in NW Alabama, my numbers are not bad now due to using the traps and sticky paper traps.
Even yI'll never own cattle I love the experiments. It's a learning experience. It'll be super interesting to see how you end up grazing and how this years Hay goes. I gotta say it's looking very promising.
So cute! Patty is so vocal😂. I enjoy seeing Hillary and how you are looking for trouble! Since you are standing by the lilac bush, hand me a few for my vase! 😉 thanks! (I hope you are taking some for Hillary) Great to see you! The mob is happy!🤗💗🤗
Thanks, Pete! VERY instructional and relevant as we are gonna be helping a farmer friend with his grazing management this summer. One little guy at school is enamored by clocks and his gifted brain is enabling and encouraging him to build and repair clocks. I spent 30 minutes the other day signing yearbooks with one hand while he got my watch calendar straightened out. You never know with these precious ones, but I do know your clock videos are on his summertime agenda. His Dad was SO excited to learn about you and your mechanically oriented videos. His dream? To get inside Big Ben and study it. Maybe he will, bless him! Keep it up, you never know who you're gonna touch next!
Thanks Pete!! The only bad thing about your videos, is that they are not long enough. My daughter and I watch each one at night before bed. That's how i talk her into going to bed. She says, "let's watch Pete." Again, thank you for the real life videos! God Bless you and your family!
It's amazing how fast the ground dry's out, but then again also how fast it muds up and holds water after a good gully washer. I just mowed the lawn (got gud 1.8 acres to mow around the house. ) and it was dry/hard enough that I didn't sink in with the mower, normally really wet all around here. but we had 1.7 inches last night and there is standing water on my side hill lawn (50deg incline) so I agree with your assessment on how it drys and comes back fast. and I love your grassing fencing of your pastures I think that's reall a great thought out process. kudos Pete! and a big Kudo for Hillary also you both work good together as a team. thanks for sharing. ECF
Pete, one of your best. Very diverse. Entertaining, informative, cows, a tractor, fencing, cows, a husband and wife team, nice lush field grass and cows. It was over to fast.
Good looking Salad Bar your cows have! Awesome mix of grasses, you are a very knowledgeable and innovative enough to try new things ! Good Job you two!
Farmers here in TN has already cut there first hay, I hope it’s going to be a good hay year. I enjoy all your videos, keep up the great work and thank you for all the good ideas about fencing. God bless and stay cool.
I am in the netherlands (Friesland) most of us just had our first silage cut and cows outside for about a month and a half almost all of the netherlands has a drought so there's not much growing
Your weather window order has been received and scheduled per your request. I like the idea about haying and grazing. My only concern would be the recovery time for each pasture. What proof hard work pays off. That grass is beautiful!
Pete, I LOVE your cows!! They know a good buffet when they see it.....(or smell it). I very much enjoyed the video....love it that you went from the icky flies, to the lovely lilac bush! Have a great day....Bev in Maine
Watching your cows and you interact is so much fun...while i was drinking my coffee this morning, but i was trying to figure out where Pickle was...all those little heifers look alike..lmao! Makes me homesick for the childhood I had in a way! But wayway to much work! Love your videos.
Thank you Pete and Hilary for your great videos. Love hearing the cows and watching the two of you work on the farm. The lilac bush is beautiful. You really do live in a lovely area.
I just stumbled upon your channel, my brother and I have a hobby/4H dairy/beef operation. We have bought some old hay equipment trying to make it more economical. In the past we had a friend bale our fields and he took half. That method took less time but we lost a lot of hay because of that. Thank you for the 3 part hay videos!
I just love it when your girls moan and groan and complain to you while you’re doing something it sounds so much like my dog I’ll be working on something and he will come up and start whining at me making his little comments and I realize what he wants and it’s like OK but you get to know their behavior it’s just how well you work with your animals and how you know what they want
Can't wait till it's time to make hay having verry interesting videos to watch abound you making hay and me making hay my self this time I only have used manure and sheep pooping on it right now instead of sheep poop and fertilizer Our hay season usually starts in July but in June it can happen to
The detailed explanations and closeup shots of the fencework are so helpful. I've never built fences but I'll be living on a ranch soon and I'm anticipating a lot of this work. Thanks so much for the great tutorials and for explaining what works for you and why!
We always energized our gates through the hook. That way you don't have to deal with a live wire while opening the gate and you can just drop it on the ground.
I fit you into the time slots you wanted. Two days of sun, followed by one day of rain, which will occur twice a week from now until the end of October. Also four days of dry sunny weather, once in early June, another in mid to late July, and again in late September, to get the hay baled. No work on Sunday, of course. But it will cost you. Just send a bucket of money to Bob !!
Pete you are an inspiration to others. Probably more then you know. Thank you for the frequent videos of wisdom and farming lessons. You have taught me so much
agreed!
I just love how Patty and the other cows groan and talk to you when they want something. I think it's hilarious! I could watch and listen to that all day long and it would never get old. My Grandfather ran a big dairy farm and it was the same with their cows when it came to food. They weren't as vocal as yours though.
The two of you make me miss my dear Dolores we would work together all the time. Lovely couple 💑😍
Thank you Pete for making these videos. With all that's going on in the world today you not only provide a pleasant break but a positive outlook. There is more than enough gloom and doom.
7 thumbs downs.... I always wonder what makes people give a thumbs down on a video like this.
I love how Patty always voices her openion on how Pete is not moving fast enough lol.. It was nice to see you both working hard together to get thing ready for the summer. Great work guys..
Whenever you "call" your cows I completely lose it. It's got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. As always, thank you for your videos.
That’s how you make my day , a new video from Pete ❤️🇨🇦
Hey Pete love watching your videos I love the way you treat your animals keep them coming.
Pete I sure do enjoy your videos. As far as your weather pattern say your prayers and hope that Mother Nature works with you.
I had those fly traps it seemed to me that I was gathering the whole county's worth of flys , so I was basically asking for more troubles 🤪 and I love watching you walk ing almost hand in hand with Hillary 👍❤️☕
I just love Hillary, she always has a big smile and she laughs at your jokes!
Reminded me of my days on the farm. Our dairy cows would bellow like mad when milking was over. They wanted out.They would also come when we called them. We didn't have to go to the pastures to get them. Love your videos and sage advice. Keep on farming.
Travis you sure are right as a kid on the farm I remember My friends father would just go to the gate and yell CO BOSS CO BOSS they all would come to the barn.
Hello Peter & Hillary. Your pastures look beautiful. The cows have nothing to worry about. Be well.
If they don't think you're going fast enough tell them to come and do it right themselves. 😀😆😆😆. This is funny!
I have laughed and laughed at the cows this morning. Just funny!
We love your videos...
Just such a well done video. You inspire and teach many of us to follow our dreams in an educated controlled manner. Thanks for everything you do. Watching your videos I have learned about my old tractor, my small farm operation etc etc
Thanks Ravel! Good luck with your farm!
@@JustaFewAcresFarm do you have a link for the jar flies trap?
Love how you show how you plan to do your fencing. The fly traps are really great to see how they work. Your cattle will thank you for the comfort
Another great 👍 farm video, Pete. Like your fly experiment 🔬. Looking forward to taking broiler chickens to pasture. I get a laugh 😂 out of chickens rushing out of the chicken 🐓 house. Take care and have a great day. P.S. thank Hillary for the help. She is a low key, supportive person. You guys make a great 👍 team.
What a team you and Hilarie make!
As always Pete, very enjoyable video.
I agree with your pasture logic, makes good sense
Just a few acres. I really enjoy your videos. We are on year 3 of starting our small farm. Your nuggets of wisdom are welcome at our farm. When i get bogged down trying to achieve something my wife always references your guiding message of how you cant go from zero to perfect in one step on a farm. Keep the great and uncommercialized content coming.
Your smile is contagious, Thank You
Watching your videos for as long as I have, when I hear Patty I recognize her call, I swear!
Pete, I don't often comment but I want you to know how much I enjoy and look forward to every new video. Repeat- every new video! regardless of subject matter. Your friend Bob
Hi Bob, thank you. I appreciate that very much.
Hey Pete. Good video and information, as usual!
Pete I Really enjoy watching your videos. You are such a positive person. Thanks for the videos. I always look forward to watching your next video. God bless you and your wife and Family.
Just love 💕 the cows x
You’ve a lovely herd Pete, was nice to see Hilarie too x
Fun video. It was so precious to watch the cows follow you, all the time talking to you. They are amazing animals. Good to see Hillary out and about with you. Great team! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
Another great video, Pete. Yes, your farm name could be "Experimental Farm" because of all of the new ways you try to do things. You are constantly looking for good research and new ways to improve the farm and your animals. Thanks for making great videos.
"Innovative Acres" ?
It’s so nice to get my mind off of politics, I love your lifestyle
Like the t-shirt today. My dad always enjoyed Farmall tractor.
Keep up the great work pete!!!!
Love the channel Pete…keep ‘em coming
Your videos never dissapoint..thanks Pete
Your map outa sticks really got me...I had to watch some of the video twice for laughing...
Looking like the Fram do good I can't believe all the Flies you make my day
Love hearing them and they're happy crunch-n-munch!
Great video Pete.... thanks!
That Patty!!! 😀 the color of the video is so vivid today, so pretty!
Garlic salt infused beef sounds marketable to me!😉
Prayers up for perfect summer farming weather. 🐓🐂🐷🐈⬛
Hey Pete
Awesome hat...lol
Cooked up the sausages and mixed ground beef and pork together for burgers....outstanding flavor
It was great to meet you.
Mike and Brenda
Ottawa
I was like hey I know that logo! Love the NRC hat Pete!! :) And hello from Ottawa
Nice meeting you too, and thanks for the hat!
Thanks for the fence building lesson. Always wondered just how they did that cross brace and the fence tightener. That and the fly stuff was really interesting. Thanks again!
Another great video. I enjoy all of them and look forward to seeing the next one
Hi Pete! Interesting to hear you may want to experiment with "rotational mowing" in addition to rotational grazing. In the Netherlands this is called "mowing in service of grazing". Meaning that mowing the grass is performed to yield the perfect quality of grass at the right time, so that the cows can graze the best quality of grass at all times... typicaly when a field is grazed several times, quality goes down after some time. This field can become refreshed after mowing.
While telling you this, I notice how silly this must sound, because you are probably well aware of this practice...
Anyways, common practice here is a ratio of 2 times grazing versus 1 times mowing, this being repeated during the season. This cycle is planned in a schedule for all fields. Grow state and speed of the different fields can be controlled with applience of fertilizer and manure anywhere between february 15th and september 1st...
In New Zealand we call that topping. Mowing pasture that's getting a bit too far gone or too much seed head for grazing mow before or after cows go in. If there's just too much growth and you can't keep up skip a few paddocks and mow them for hay or silage
@@glenkoopman7347 Okay! But are you planning the growth of gras also? This is done in Netherlands by applying various amounts of nitrogen fertilizer and slurry. E.g. in early spring, some paddocks are applied more nitrogen, so growth of gras is more rapidly than on paddocks with less nitrogen. Thus creating a variety of growth state over all paddocks, such that cows always have an optimal feed, when they are moved from one paddock to the next.
@@henrieassinck I am in New Zealand we graze everyday of the year and yes fertilizer mowing and grazing all work together to try get optimal quality for cows
@@glenkoopman7347 do yall have any reservation of haying a field after grazing???? after the cows move thru the fields and leave manure pats in them, how long do you wait in order to not have manure in you hay bales?? i really dont like the idea of having manure in my hay bales....thoughts??? thanks
@@raybornclark8617 it depends on what type of machines you use an how you use them.
Myself I mow after extensive grazing in some plots. Sometimes after a few weeks allready, depending on the weather. The manure of the cows stays untouched if the mower is set to not cut the grass too short. Then set tedders and rakes in such a way that they do not touch the manure with the teeth... it might take more time to complete the job, but it is doable.
seems a farmer is really a weather forecaster loving the content cheers mate
We just love viewing your channel , thanks again!
I am beginning to look forward to your videos. Nice mix of topics
Thanks Howard!
I love building electric fence. Its kinda like building with LEGO.
Its enjoyable and feels good to accomplish getting a fence up or repaired back into good working order.
I have been using the fly traps for about 5 years along with sticky paper in our chicken pen. The earlier they are installed really helps late season fly numbers duue to eliminating the breeding population. At least that is my thought process. Have a great day. We are about 1 mounth ahead of you in seasonal fly development in NW Alabama, my numbers are not bad now due to using the traps and sticky paper traps.
🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 ❤ 🎀 ❤ 🎀
Even yI'll never own cattle I love the experiments. It's a learning experience. It'll be super interesting to see how you end up grazing and how this years Hay goes. I gotta say it's looking very promising.
Beautiful shot of the fields and the cows!
Loved the video! Thrilled over the larger fly traps!
Always enjoy watching you guys
I love all your details! Lunch country buffet 🤣😂 Love the country views 🌻🦋. Great video❗️
Lol, Sand People, single file... May the force be with Just A Few Acres!
So cute! Patty is so vocal😂. I enjoy seeing Hillary and how you are looking for trouble! Since you are standing by the lilac bush, hand me a few for my vase! 😉 thanks! (I hope you are taking some for Hillary)
Great to see you! The mob is happy!🤗💗🤗
Thanks, Pete! VERY instructional and relevant as we are gonna be helping a farmer friend with his grazing management this summer. One little guy at school is enamored by clocks and his gifted brain is enabling and encouraging him to build and repair clocks. I spent 30 minutes the other day signing yearbooks with one hand while he got my watch calendar straightened out. You never know with these precious ones, but I do know your clock videos are on his summertime agenda. His Dad was SO excited to learn about you and your mechanically oriented videos. His dream? To get inside Big Ben and study it. Maybe he will, bless him! Keep it up, you never know who you're gonna touch next!
Thanks Pete!! The only bad thing about your videos, is that they are not long enough. My daughter and I watch each one at night before bed. That's how i talk her into going to bed. She says, "let's watch Pete." Again, thank you for the real life videos! God Bless you and your family!
Love the video and to see what is going on in your area.
It's amazing how fast the ground dry's out, but then again also how fast it muds up and holds water after a good gully washer. I just mowed the lawn (got gud 1.8 acres to mow around the house. ) and it was dry/hard enough that I didn't sink in with the mower, normally really wet all around here. but we had 1.7 inches last night and there is standing water on my side hill lawn (50deg incline) so I agree with your assessment on how it drys and comes back fast. and I love your grassing fencing of your pastures I think that's reall a great thought out process. kudos Pete! and a big Kudo for Hillary also you both work good together as a team. thanks for sharing. ECF
Hillary is adorable. You two are so cute together!
Awesome video Pete 🚜
Great job 👍
My day always gets better when I notice Pete's got a new video posted. Smiles abound.
Thank you. It is great that your fly experiments are working.
Pete, one of your best. Very diverse. Entertaining, informative, cows, a tractor, fencing, cows, a husband and wife team, nice lush field grass and cows. It was over to fast.
I love farmalls best tractors made back in the day
I like Hillary's shirt. Both of our sons graduated with honors from Central Missouri State. Good college.
Good looking Salad Bar your cows have! Awesome mix of grasses, you are a very knowledgeable and innovative enough to try new things ! Good Job you two!
Farmers here in TN has already cut there first hay, I hope it’s going to be a good hay year. I enjoy all your videos, keep up the great work and thank you for all the good ideas about fencing. God bless and stay cool.
I am in the netherlands (Friesland) most of us just had our first silage cut and cows outside for about a month and a half almost all of the netherlands has a drought so there's not much growing
@@luuxdraijer3484 I’m sorry to hear that, I’ll be praying for y’all to get some relief and rain. God bless
@Nick Jones That is awesome to hear, god bless and pray for the ones that need rain for there hay fields.
I use those jar traps and those paper fly traps too for my goat barn they work great.
Your weather window order has been received and scheduled per your request. I like the idea about haying and grazing. My only concern would be the recovery time for each pasture. What proof hard work pays off. That grass is beautiful!
Pete, I LOVE your cows!! They know a good buffet when they see it.....(or smell it). I very much enjoyed the video....love it that you went from the icky flies, to the lovely lilac bush! Have a great day....Bev in Maine
Thanks Pete and Hillary! Great video!
Great fence building instructional video! All most time for hey season!
Just look @ that line up lol. Hilary you're the Mame! I'm a duck. Thanks for wearing the shirt and thanks to the friend for sending it in. Quack😁
Watching your cows and you interact is so much fun...while i was drinking my coffee this morning, but i was trying to figure out where Pickle was...all those little heifers look alike..lmao! Makes me homesick for the childhood I had in a way! But wayway to much work! Love your videos.
Good morning
Loved how the cattle follow you around the farm...Thanks for explaining all you do to keep your farm in good shape.
Thanks for the class, professor.
The fly trap is a great investment.
Thank you Pete and Hilary for your great videos. Love hearing the cows and watching the two of you work on the farm. The lilac bush is beautiful. You really do live in a lovely area.
I just stumbled upon your channel, my brother and I have a hobby/4H dairy/beef operation. We have bought some old hay equipment trying to make it more economical. In the past we had a friend bale our fields and he took half. That method took less time but we lost a lot of hay because of that. Thank you for the 3 part hay videos!
Enjoyed it Pete!
The leaves and blossoms in Maine literally all popped in about 3-4 days. It always amazes me how quickly they pop
I just love it when your girls moan and groan and complain to you while you’re doing something it sounds so much like my dog I’ll be working on something and he will come up and start whining at me making his little comments and I realize what he wants and it’s like OK but you get to know their behavior it’s just how well you work with your animals and how you know what they want
Can't wait till it's time to make hay having verry interesting videos to watch abound you making hay and me making hay my self this time I only have used manure and sheep pooping on it right now instead of sheep poop and fertilizer
Our hay season usually starts in July but in June it can happen to
Hey Pete I’m watching you from Oregon but I’m a beaver fan, always enjoy your videos
Greetings from Becky and Charlie in Fort Worth. - enjoyed visiting with you at the market last Saturday and as always enjoyed today's video.
The detailed explanations and closeup shots of the fencework are so helpful. I've never built fences but I'll be living on a ranch soon and I'm anticipating a lot of this work. Thanks so much for the great tutorials and for explaining what works for you and why!
Weather is coming just like you ordered i have family in the National Weather Service i put in a good word for you Pete 😉
Needed the instruction on fence supports. Enjoying the channel. Tks for sharing.
Proper good weather coming for you on the 28th if I'm a weather god. If not I wish you the best! Love your videos~
We always energized our gates through the hook. That way you don't have to deal with a live wire while opening the gate and you can just drop it on the ground.
I fit you into the time slots you wanted. Two days of sun, followed by one day of rain, which will occur twice a week from now until the end of October. Also four days of dry sunny weather, once in early June, another in mid to late July, and again in late September, to get the hay baled. No work on Sunday, of course. But it will cost you. Just send a bucket of money to Bob !!
You got it perfectly! Can I send a check? ;)
You have some nice grass and utilizing it twice to graze and bale is really nice.
I've been waiting to see you wear the Farmall tee I sent and you did it! Last scene, awesome Pete!